Climate Resilient WASH

5.1 # of people using at least basic drinking water services

Purpose:

Access to an at least basic drinking water service is fundamental to living a healthy life with dignity.

This indicator links directly to SDG 1.4.1. The global Joint Monitoring Program (JMP) which measures our progress to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), measures two levels of access – to a basic service and to a safely managed service (see Indicator 5.2 below). Data on this may be able feed into national SDG reporting. The indicator also links to humanitarian minimum standards (Sphere) and is likely to be a WASH cluster / sector indicator.

Frequency

Programmatic: Baseline and endline. Two years into the programme this indicator should be measured on an annual basis.

For development and humanitarian projects: Baseline and endline. At mid-term, measuring this indicator may help to refine the project’s activities.

Data Source

Household surveys.

How to Collect

Suggested household survey questions …

… and notes:

I’d like to talk to you about your households drinking water needs:

This is the section of the HH survey / KAP where we ask about drinking water needs.Not all questions about drinking water needs are included in this guidance note, only those required to answer the indictor.

For the next XX questions, please think about how water was collected and managed in the last week:

1.What is your household’s main source of drinking water (select one from the following list):

The survey manager should know before the survey if there are multiple boreholes, shallow wells, public taps or protected springs.If this is the case, the list should number specific sources so household data can be correlated with observational data.A map may be useful for this.

In locations where a) is selected, a WASH technician should make a technical observation and take measurements at the water distribution point to ensure water quality.

2.Does someone from your household have to collect the water?

a.Yes

b.No

c.Don’t know

Probe – does whoever collects the water have to walk, bike, travel some distance, even a short one, to collect the water?

3.On their most recent trip, how long did it take them, including the time they had to queue?

a.Less than 30 mins

b.More than 30 mins

c.Don’t know

For the next XX questions, please think about how water is collected in the dry / wet season:

Select the season that it is not now, i.e. if it is now the dry season, ask about how water is collected in the wet season.

4.In this season, what is your household’s main source of drinking water (select one from the following list):

The survey manager should know before the survey if there are multiple boreholes, shallow wells, public taps or protected springs.If this is the case, the list should number specific sources so household data can be correlated with observational data.A map may be useful for this.

5.Does someone from your household have to collect the water?

a.Yes

b.No

c.Don’t know

Probe – does whoever collects the water have to walk, bike, travel some distance, even a short one, to collect the water?

6.On their most recent trip, how long did it take them?

a.Less than 30 mins

b.More than 30 mins

c.Don’t know

How to analyse

Dissagregate data by

Gender

Age

Wealth

Diversity

Not applicable

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Disaggregated data is important to understand gaps in service delivery especially to the more vulnerable sections of the community and the impact on the burden for water collection and management usually carried by women and girls.

Other comments

A basic drinking water service is one from an improved source (see below) where the round trip to collect water is 30 minutes or less, including queueing.

Improved drinking water sources are those which by nature of their design and construction have the potential to deliver safe water. These include piped supplies (such as households with tap water in their dwelling, yard or plot; or public standposts) and non-piped supplies (such as boreholes, protected wells and springs, rainwater and packaged or delivered water). Stricter national standards may apply.